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Call Time At The Casino: Europe's Bad Bets Come Due

Lately, European leaders seem panicked. By the beginning of July, the EU had begun acting in an increasingly assertive, confident way. On China – they announced new a

The Irish Kraken Awakens: British Interests After American Power

Donald Trump’s year of smashing things continues apace. Iran, Greenland, Canada… At some point, there is no more china in the shop for the bull to break. But not yet. W

Super Size Me II: Malcom Kyeyune on The Burger Theory of History, Revisited

Super-Size Me II. 140 episodes ago, Malcolm Kyeyune launched a piece of verbal artillery into the mess hall of online discourse. The Burger Theory of History. It qu

Special Edition: The Horizons

September is here. As the calendar page tugs away, the madness of the dog days of summer blows away. The madness of the autumn is upon us. With the Pina Colada mix in th

Two Audio Essays: A Japanese Unwinding vs An Iranian Tightening

Two audio essays, one smouldering fuse. This week, Philip Pilkington takes on a financial cascade emerging from the Japanese Bond situation. Ever since its one-day bond

Multipolarity Dialogues: AI and the future of warfare with Steve Hsu

Multipolarity Dialogues is a series of special multipolarity interviews that scan the geopolitical horizon. We talk to some of the sharpest analysts, thinkers, and expert

The Pod To End All Pods: Part 3

Coming up this week, last week, and the week before… A massive multi-part episode. The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order is with the death doula ri

The Pod To End All Pods: Part 2

The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order dies of smoke inhalation in a dumpster fire. The new one has yet to be lifted out by C-Section. The only thin

The Pod To End All Pods: Part 1

Coming up this week and next week and the week after… A massive multi-part episode. The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order dies of smoke inhalatio

All Your Base Are Belong To Us, The People’s Carcrash, Our Democracy

You’ve heard of de-Baathification? Now what about de-baseification? The gradual chipping back of US strategic assets in the Gulf as each in turn comes under pressure from

Iran: The Oil Price War With Conventional War Characteristics

This week: two audio essays, on one big Iran cluster-frig. In the Collingwood corner: Donald Trump has become an unreadable politician. His credibility has burst thro

Slipping and Sliding, Spit and Polish

It’s an oil rush. Fill your boots, fellers, America is releasing its strategic petroleum reserves, ostensibly to see down Iranian pressure. Good news for voters, great ne

Pilkington Vs Collingwood: A Multipolarity Q&A Special

This week on Multipolarity, we’re taking your questions. It’s a Q&A episode, involving queries sent in by our loyal listeners. Questions like: How did you guys meet?

No Deal Is Better Than An Islama-bad Deal, The Godmother, Two Year Keir

Iran’s 14 points: making the world safe for Shia Theocracy. Obviously, Donald Trump putting his John Hancock to the Islamabad Memorandum at Versailles carries absolutel

Multipolarity Dialogues: The Other Superweapon - Adventures In Chinese AI, with TP Huang

Fable — a short fantastical tale with a moral message. For weeks, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei was telling anyone who’d listen that he’d invented an AI so powerful it could

Strait To Hell, Kim Jong Boom, Armenian Roulette

It’s war in our time. After flirting with peace for a few miserable hours, the US and Iran are back to what they know best: taking uneven chunks out of each other amidst

Two Audio Essays: The Escalation Ladder & Weaponised Interdependence

This week: two audio essays. First up, they’re calling it the Poor Man’s Tomahawk. Ukraine is firing up to 2000 long range drones a week into Russia. The production fac

Crossing The Orange Line, Hard Bargain, Sino Silicon

Russia has rained Oreshnik hypersonic missiles on Kiev. Four people killed. 549 missiles apparently shot down. This was a message. The Oreshnik travels at Mach 10. It was

Huawei With The Fairies, Land of The Falling Bond, Montezuma’s Other Revenge

Donald Trump took Elon Musk and Jensen Huang to Beijing with him for 48 hours. But rather than the frat boy big weekend of their autistic dreams, the trip turned into a s

Two Audio Essays: The Oil Infrastructure Breakdown & How Epstein Could Bring Down The British Bond Markets

This week: a tale of two audio essays. Philip is going deep dive on the coming oil crisis. He sees a two-wave format emerging. The initial wave - dropping in a month o